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.!.; 3HRI0ATH RUMPHAL : «' r.-ci?£TAK'Y GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH ROUGH HOUSE s-viY 5HX ../•< • • -V . •• L O N D O N . • • •• " -.'.•• 51/5/1977. 736. FROM A PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL LETTER ADDRESSED TO ME 3Y THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER COMMA THE RIGHT HON JAMES CALLAGHAN COMMA DATED 22ND MAY 1977 THE CONTENTS WHICH I DO NOT WISH TO REVEAL AT TH$ EEE AT THIS MOMENT COMMA IT HAS NOW BECOME A8ANDANTLY CLEAR THAT IT IS NOT THE WISH OF THE GOVERNMENT OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN THAT LEA- DERS V.-nO SPEAK OUT FRANKLY ON MATTERS AFFECTING THE FUTURE OF THE COMMONWEALTH COMMA . . . ESPECIALLY NOW WHEN ALMOST ALL COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES ARE INDE- PENDENT AND SOVEREIGN STATES COMMA SHOULD GO TO LONDON TO ATTEND THE MEETING OF THE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH STOP CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES COMMA OF WHICH EMPIRE THIS ATTITUDE CEASED TO BE AN E COLONIES THE SLAVES COMMA SHE ISSTILL IN v/HICH SHE INDEPENDENT AND •.,'EALTH MEETING OF HEADS PRETENDS TO SOVEREIGN ARROGATE TO STATE LIKE OF STATE AND THAT ALTHOUGH BRITAIN HAS LONG SHE WAS THE MASTER AND THE CLINGING TO DAY-LIGHT DREAMS HERSELF THE UGANDA FROM GOVERNMENT RIGHT TO EXCLUDE AN ATTENDING THE COM-IOK S TOP IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THIS HAS BEEN DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT IS UGA- NDAS INTENTION AT THE FORTH-COMING COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE TO POINT OUT THE TV/O THOUSAND MISTAKES MADE BY BRITAIN DURING HER COLONIAL RUL STOP ! WISH TO MAKE IT ABSOLUTELY"-CLEAR THAT GONE ARE THE--DAYS WHEN BRITAIN WIELDED THE POWERS AND AUTHORITY OF AN IMPERIAL MASTER OVER THE COMMONWEALTH STOP . . - ; - . ....' IT IS ONLY THOSE TRUE NATIONALIST LEADERS LIKE MYSELF WHO REFUSE Of TO -\E MICROPHONES OF GREAT BRITAIN OR ANY OTHER IMPERIALIST POWER AND TO SACCUM3 TO THEIR NEO-COLONIALIST AND IMPERIALISTIC ORDERS THAT TALL THE VICTIMS OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENTS MANIPULATION OF THE COMMQ NV/EALTH ' STOP BY TELLING A MEMBER STATE OF AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION WHO SHOULD REPRESENT IT AT MEETINGS OF THAT ORGANISATION COMMA THE 3R'ITI~ tH GOVERNMENT IS NOT ONLY INTERFERRING IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF TH£ EEE OF THE STATE BUT ALSO CREATING A BAD AND DANGEROUS PRECEDENT FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COMMOfxV/EALTHSTOP I *- A "Pert A C At!